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1904 Words of comfort.... prayer in spirit and in truth....

May 2, 1941: Book 28

So trust in the goodness and love of the lord. Entrust your suffering and your worries to Him and surrender yourselves to His grace and mercy. He who gave you life also knows what serves your soul for its salvation, and you must entrust yourselves to His love. For if you pray fervently.... in spirit and in truth.... so not only your lips speak, but you feel deeply in your heart what you say, you will also find favour before the lord.... For He does not want you to suffer, but that you find your way to Him and come to Him with every request. He wants you to be intimately united with Him; He wants you to come to the father like a child; He only wants your heart.... He wants you to speak to Him at all times, He wants you to entrust your needs to Him and faithfully expect His help. For He loves you as a father loves his children.... He wants to give you a life of eternal glory, and thus you are to purify yourselves during your earthly existence and therefore have to take the cross and suffering upon yourselves. And you should always remember that Jesus Christ carried His cross in order to reduce people's suffering, and anyone who devotedly carries his cross on earth is, as it were, carrying the cross for his saviour and redeemer. He is already participating in Christ's work of redemption on earth. Yet suffering is never greater than the helper.... and if you become timid, the father in heaven will strengthen you again if only you ask Him sincerely to help you.... Make every sacrifice out of love for Him, and one day you will be rewarded a thousandfold. But do not fear the world.... For God is greater than the world.... God's power also reaches where man's power fails. And if you call upon God for help, He will grant it to you, for only His infinite love determines Him to send you suffering from time to time so that He may win your hearts and you may enter into intimate union with the one Who is the father of you all....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers